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discussed in biography

Locke remained in Holland for more than five years (1683–89). While there he made new and important friends and associated with other exiles from England. He also wrote his first
Letter on Toleration, published anonymously in Latin in 1689, and completed
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

political philosophy

...English philosopher, who further developed this doctrine. His
Two Treatises of Government (1690) were written to justify the Glorious Revolution of 1688–89, and his
Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) was written with a plain and easy urbanity, in contrast to the baroque eloquence of Hobbes. Locke was a scholar, physician, and man of affairs,...

role in constitution

...the compact. Anyone who rejects the constitution must leave the territory of the political unit and go
in vacuis locis, or “empty places”—America, in Locke’s time. In his
Letters on Toleration, Locke characteristically excluded atheists from religious toleration because they could be expected either not to take the original contractual oath or not to be bound by...

views of dissent in political theory

...of the larger collective as dissenting from the norms of that collective. Frequently, the issue of dissent and toleration has involved religious minorities. In his famous piece “
A Letter Concerning Toleration” (1689), John Locke argued that tolerance is indeed a Christian virtue and that the state as a civic association should be concerned only with civic interests,...